Character-escape addition simplified (see README.addescape, also added).

[mandoc.git] / mdocterm.1

diff --git a/mdocterm.1 b/mdocterm.1
index c7033d41a5290f858dcafe243cf2ae5c4a33b669..e104a51dd734f4554f79255e6477326524625682 100644 (file)
--- a/mdocterm.1
+++ b/mdocterm.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: mdocterm.1,v 1.5 2009/02/25 15:12:26 kristaps Exp $
+.\" $Id: mdocterm.1,v 1.10 2009/03/03 21:07:01 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
 .\"
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 .\" TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
 .\" PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 25 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 3 2009 $
 .Dt mdocmterm 1
 .Os
 .\" SECTION
@@ -89,6 +89,127 @@ reads from stdin and prints terminal-encoded output to stdout.
 .Nm
 is
 .Ud
+.\" SUB-SECTION
+.Ss Character Escapes
+This section documents the character-escapes accepted by
+.Xr mdocterm 1 .
+Note that the \\x, \\(xx and \\[n] forms are described here; the \\*(xx,
+\\*[n] and \\*x forms described in
+.Xr mdoc.samples 7
+are deprecated, but still rendered.  All one- and two-character
+sequences may be used in the n-character sequence \\[n].
+.Pp
+Note that the
+.Em Output
+column will render differently whether executed with
+.Xr mdocterm 1 
+or another output filter.
+.\" PARAGRAPH
+.Pp
+Grammatic:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
+.It Em Output
+.Em Input (Name)
+.It \(em
+\\(em (em-dash)
+.It \(en
+\\(en (en-dash)
+.It \-
+\\- (hyphen)
+.It \\
+\\ (back-slash)
+.El
+.\" PARAGRAPH
+.Pp
+Enclosures:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
+.It Em Output
+.Em Input (Name)
+.It \(rB
+\\(rB (right bracket)
+.It \(lB
+\\(rB (left bracket)
+.It \(lq
+\\(lq (left double-quote)
+.It \(rq
+\\(rq, \\' (right double-quote)
+.It \(oq
+\\(lq, \\` (left single-quote)
+.It \(aq
+\\(aq (right single-quote, apostrophe)
+.El
+.\" PARAGRAPH
+.Pp
+Indicatives:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
+.It Em Output
+.Em Input (Name)
+.It \(<-
+\\(<- (left arrow)
+.It \(->
+\\(-> (right arrow)
+.It \(ua
+\\(ua (up arrow)
+.It \(da
+\\(da (down arrow)
+.El
+.\" PARAGRAPH
+.Pp
+Mathematical:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
+.It Em Output
+.Em Input (Name)
+.It \(<=
+\\(<= (less-than-equal)
+.It \(>=
+\\(>= (greater-than-equal)
+.It \(==
+\\(== (greater-than-equal)
+.It \(!=
+\\(!= (not equal)
+.It \(if
+\\(if (infinity)
+.It \(na
+\\(na (NaN)*
+.It \(+-
+\\(+- (plus-minus)
+.It \(**
+\\(** (asterisk)
+.El
+.\" PARAGRAPH
+.Pp
+Diacritics:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
+.It Em Output
+.Em Input (Name)
+.It \(ga
+\\(ga (accent grave)
+.It \(aa
+\\(aa (accent accute)
+.El
+.\" PARAGRAPH
+.Pp
+Special symbols:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width "OutputXXXX" -offset "XXXX" -compact
+.It Em Output
+.Em Input (Name)
+.It \(bu
+\\(bu (bullet)
+.It \(ba
+\\(ba (bar)
+.It \(co
+\\(co (copyright)
+.El 
+.Pp
+*This is a deviation from the standard, as NaN is usually rendered as
+\\*(Na, which is a deprecated form.  We introduce \\(na, which follows
+the more general syntax.
 .\" SECTION
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 To display this manual page:
@@ -120,9 +241,21 @@ See
 for a list of bugs, caveats, and incomplete macros regarding the
 document parse.
 .Pp
-For front-end formatting, the
-.Sq -hang ,
-.Sq -inset
-and
-.Sq -column
-list types aren't yet supported.
+The 
+.Nm
+utility doesn't yet know how to display the following:
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact
+.It
+Only \-bullet , \-dash , \-enum , \-hyphen , \-tag and \-ohang
+.Sq \&Bl
+lists are supported.
+.It
+The \-literal and \-unfilled 
+.Sq \&Bd
+displays only accept text contents.
+.It
+The
+.Sq \&Xo/Xc
+pair isn't supported (and never will be).
+.El